Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage animals From the stories we tell

From the stories we tell children

10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement

a grandmother and medicine healer in the Crow tribe

with both rage and tenderness

short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life

Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage animals From the stories we tellA dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota Territories to teach Native American students, undaunted by society's admonitions. Charles, a Dakota Sioux from Minnesota, educated at Dartmouth and Boston